Demonstration-garment.



L. S. CARROLL.

DEMONSTRATION GARMENT.

APPLICATION rILnn 3111.28, 1911.

996,2 1 O, Patented June 27, 1911.

WITNESSES JNVENTOR.

5L M S carve? LIMA S. CARROLL, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

DEMONSTRATION-GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J nne 27, 1911.

Application filed January 28, 1911. Serial No. 605,305.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, LIMA S. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, andresiding in the city and county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Demonstration-Garments, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to demonstration garments and the object of myinvention is to provide a garment more particularly a combination waistand part of the skirt, sufficient to give it a waist and skirt effectfor ladies, that may be used totemporarily take the place of outer waistand skirt after the demonstrator has fitted or adjusted the corset uponthe person to determine how the wearers dress will appear over the newlyfitted corset and also to assist both the demonstrator and patron, bydoing away with the necessity of dressing and undressing when the corsetneeds altering and further adjustment; and still further in adapting onegarment to be used on numerous per sons varying greatly in size andform.

The following specification will .explain in detail in what manner Iaccomplish my object when read in connect-ion with the drawingsaccompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the garment on a person. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the garment opened.

Like characters of reference denote similar parts in each of thedrawings.

In the drawings, 2 designates the body of the garment which ispreferably made in three sections 4, 5 and 6 of Jersey cloth capable ofgreat elasticity and said garment extends a considerable distance belowthe waist line. The outer edge of section 4 is provided with buttonholes 8 of which the hooks or buttons ,10 on the outer edge of thesection 6 engage. The sections 4 and 6 are sewed to section 5 over theshoulders at 11 and it is provided with the arm holes 12. Beneath eacharm hole the sections 4 and 6 are united to section 5 by elastic strips15 with a very narrow space 16 between the strips. These strips 15 varyin length being longer immediately beneath the arm holes and decreasingin length to the waist line then increasing in length to the bottom ofthe garment, which, in ordinary persons, would be about at the knees.These elastic strips being of different lengths and spaced between anduniting the edges of the sections in a manner described, will permitevery portion of the garment to automatically adjust itself and fitevery portion of the person even though they are of a great variety ofsize and form.

In order to provide for very small or abnormally large waistmeasurements, there may be attached to one end of one of the strips 15near the waist of the garment a buckle 18 and upon the section 5 anelastic strip 20 adapted to engage the buckle, but this buckle and stripare not necessary except in abnormally large size and form.

For the purpose of plaiting the lower portion of this garment to give ita plaited efi'ect there is removably attached around the waist anelastic belt 25 provided with the usual buckle 26.

In the assembling and using this tempo,- rary waist and a portion of theskirt the arms of the persons are placed through the arm holes 12, andthe buttons 10 are brought into engagement with the button holes 8, thenthe yielding of the Jersey cloth will adjust itself to all theirregularities of the corset, and the straps 15 being slightly separatedfrom each other will yield sufliciently to adapt one garment to personsof a large variety of size and form. Then in order to give the skirtportion the appearance of a skirt the belt 25 is adjusted and thegarment is plaited over the hips and held by the belt and in this mannerof adjustment of the garment the person on whom the adjustment is made,can readily see how her outer dress would fit and appear over theadjusted corset as well as though she had actually redressed herselfwith her own dress, both as to the waist and skirt appearance. If inmaking the adjustment it is found that the person is of abnormallyslender waist line then the buckle 18 may be adjusted to meet such acontingency.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, a garmentfor the purposes specified formed in sections of different widths ofyielding material extending below the waist line to nearly the knees,buttons on one of the outer sections adapted to engage button holes onthe edge of the other outer section, elastic strips varying in lengthand set nearly contiguous to each other for uniting the sectionstogether beneath the arm holes, and an elastic belt adapted to hold thelower portion below the waist line in a gathered or plaited condition.

2. In a device of the character described, a garment' for the purposesspecified of yielding material formed in sections of dif :ferent Widthsand extending below the waist line and forming the upper portion of askirt, means for uniting the outer longitudinal edges of the outersections together, elastic strips of varying lengths, shortest in lengthat the waist line and increasing in length from the Waist line to thebottom of the garment said strips set a short distance apart a buckle onone of the strips at 15 and near the waist line, and an elastic beltaround the garment at the waist line to plait or gather and hold theplaits in a plaited position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of twowitnesses.

LIMA S. CARROLL.

WVitnesses M. M. CADY, A. B. HANSHAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

